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Enduring Love
Health, Sports & Psychology

Enduring Love

...adult couple relationship in the UK, how couples perceive love and commitment, and the 'relationship work' that people do to sustain their enduring love. Watch the first video below, where Ann and Owen, a couple who've been together for 54 years and married for 50, share the secret of a long relationship. Watch Read A Fine Romance: Enduring Love Ann & Owen Ann I’m Ann,...
Legacy of the Romantics
History & The Arts

Legacy of the Romantics

...adults; but the Romantic approach was to depict them as real children, and to encourage society to be more child-centred. Romanticism influenced political ideology, inviting engagement with the cause of the poor and oppressed and with ideals of social emancipation and progress. The individual was prized, but it was also felt that people were under an obligation to their...
Outdoor Therapy: The Benefits of Walking and Talking
Health, Sports & Psychology

Outdoor Therapy: The Benefits of Walking and Talking

...adults who have experienced traumatic events and we hope to be able to provide an update on this exciting area soon. And what about doing walking therapy in our everyday lives? Well whilst it’s recommended that you seek professional support for serious mental health difficulties, you don’t have to be seeing a therapist to access the simple benefits of walking and...
Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share
Health, Sports & Psychology

Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share

...adult who is able to make decisions about their own care and wellbeing. In particular, it is for everyone who may have received a terminal diagnosis (which means they have a condition that cannot be cured and will in time likely lead to death), is receiving palliative care, or is approaching the end of their life. This is because the kinds of questions covered in advance...
Should we educate prisoners?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we educate prisoners?

...adult prisoners report having been permanently excluded from school. Out of 101,600 learners, under the previous OLASS (Offenders’ Learning and Skills Service) contracts for prison education, only 100 prisoners participated in a full Level 3 course (equivalent to ‘A’ level) in 2014/15, with none participating at Level 4 which is equivalent to first-year...
Do I have mental health problems and should I get some help?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Do I have mental health problems and should I get some help?

...adults with anxiety and depression, both in individual sessions and in group-based format. However, there can be waiting lists for IAPT and for other state-funded forms of therapy. For those with the funds available to pay for treatment, websites like welldoing.org can assist people to find a therapist. [mental health counselling cartoon ] 5: A lack of hope Hope is of...
Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers

...adult LGBTQ+ asylum seekers/refugees. A decade ago, the late Ray Harvey Amer, a retired registered mental health nurse, saw a need for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers to have support. Many asylum seekers were coming to Croydon as the Home Office base is there. Ray set up a group called Rainbows Across Borders, welcoming anyone who needed help and support in relation to persecution...
Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...Adult Education and Betty began her lifelong connection with the African Caribbean community in her new role as a community development worker employed by the Commission in the UK for the West Indian Federation. The aim of the post was to support newly arrived West Indians settle in the UK. Betty began by going door to door in Moss Side inviting people to a series of...